Functional check of Apollo ALSEP lunar handtools

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1968 Dec 14 - Nation: USA.
  • Functional check of Apollo ALSEP lunar handtools Program: Apollo. Spacecraft: Apollo LM. Flight: Apollo 11.

    The ASPO Manager asked Wilmot N. Hess, MSC Director of Science and Applications, to devise a crew fit and functional check of lunar handtools before the LM-5 crew training tests.

    Functional check of the handtools, as well as the Early Apollo Science Experiments Package (EASEP), had been agreed on at a November 26 review. Actual flight hardware would be used by the crewmen to verify operation of tools and experiments. Flight handtools - as well as the EASEP, if available - would also be subjected to thermal vacuum tests in the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory, preferably during LM-5 crew training in the facility.


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